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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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What is PayPal? Is it a bank? They move money, maintain accounts and issue credit and debit cards.
PayPal sure doesn't seem to be regulated like a bank. Everything they do is a criminal conspiracy to hold as much of your money for as long as possible.
PayPal has barely improved their phone support, but for years they did not even publish their mailing address or phone number. I read recently that RIM, the BlackBerry manufacturer, is going to designate PayPal its exclusive online payment processor.
Great - that should help kill the BlackBerry once and for all. Which corporate "genius" decided to combine two of the worst customer service models, cellphone providers and PayPal, and use it to torture the early adopters.
The problems at eBay are a shame, because for sellers, you can usually get a better price selling something on eBay than on Craigslist.
For buyers, it's the opposite. I buy tech gear of all kinds, used and new, and eBay is a great place to find stuff, but if I can find it on Craigslist first, I don't bother with eBay.
Plus on Craigslist you can haggle downward over the price, which a seller cannot do on eBay. Of course, I could find my own sister for sale on Craigslist - there are some really scummy operators there.
I regularly report inappropriate Craigslist ads for pirated software and sellers who want you to send them a money order beforehand so you can pick up an item locally, because they are a student who is "temporarily overseas".
I agree with the posters here that eBay needs to go back to its roots as a service for non-corporate sellers.
They should have started a separate site for the corporate sellers, left the little guys like they were, and done much more to address corruption in the overall system.
Someone will eventually file a class action suit against them, which raises another interesting point: eBay and especially PayPal and its associated financial companies are an intricately interlinked hodgepodge of shadowy offshore companies. Do a little digging and you'll be amazed - try and find out the physical address of PayPal, Inc.
But, time will tell. Look at it this way: marijuana production DOES contribute to the nation's economy, like it or not.
It's a multibillion dollar business even before you factor in legal representation of violators of the law and the infrastructure supporting their subsequent punishment & incarceration.
Obviously if he came out tomorrow pushing legalization this would polarize the country, which probably would not be productive given the other work that needs to be done.
On the other hand, being so blithely dismissive of what seems to have been one of the biggest questions posed online does not endear Obama to a lot of folks who are looking for substantive (no pun intended, well ok, maybe a little) change in this country.
He could have taken this question a little more seriously and still not damaged his psuedo-centrist street cred...
you're killing me...
The "Rocky" was in business before The Denver Post and for more than 140 years provided an effective counterbalance to the Post's reporting and editorials in Colorado. They won Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting and photography.
Some of the former management at the Rocky are trying to resurrect some of their paper online by supporting it via the paid content model, but if that didn't work for the New York Times, it probably won't work for the Rocky either.
In any case, the Rocky was never "second string" by any stroke of the imagination.
A lot of conservatives go on and on about how promiscuous gays are, yet when homosexuals want to commit to marriage and monogamy in a relationship based on legal vows, the conservatives don't want to give them that either.
In other words, get back in the closet and stay there...
they should make for interesting campaign posters. Like, er, this one:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/election2008/ig/Election-Funny-Pictures/Giuliani-In-Drag.htm
GTA is a LOT more objectionable than this silly thing. They didn't ban the PlayStation or GTA.
S&M porn and worse are on the internet, don't see that going away anytime soon.
This app was a sick JOKE, you know, like the TV show Jackass?
If you don't like it, don't download it.
Maybe they should have charged $49.95 for it and donated the revenue to one of the groups that is complaining about it.
The nattering net nannies always use "the children" as the excuse to ban anything that offends the lowest common denominator of society.
Overkill and overreaction...
What people really want is portable video conferencing. Call your girlfriend, talk face to face, add a whole new dimension to sexting...
about the time the GOP changes its name to the "National Fascist Republican Party"...
The 800 ton whale in the organic grocery room is noted for driving down prices when they want to stifle competition, and then jacking them right back up again once they gain the upper hand. Case in point: Wild Oats.
We eat organic because my wife convinced me, and we can (barely) afford it, but once I win the Powerball lottery we are starting an ethical organic grocery co-op.
There is no justification for "recycled" aluminum foil costing two times at Whale Foods what "regular" Reynolds Wrap costs at Kroger's.
The same goes for tomatoes, corn, etc etc. I could understand a 20% markup, but the prevailing multiple times cost on organics is obvious thievery masquerading as "socially responsible" retailing.
By ripping off the public, Whale Foods gives organic a bad name, makes those of us eating organic look like idiots, and keeps the mainstream public from even considering organic as a lifestyle.
They don't call it "Whole Paycheck" for nothing....
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
